Combustion device.



W. S. BARNETT.

COMBUSTION DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 29. 1915.

1,152 691, Patented Sept. 7, 1915. x" J5 7 J6 9 J6 7?; J5

Witnesses Z It Inventor,

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Attorneys,

' i sra as i ' COMBUSTION DEVICE.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, NVILLIAM S. BARNETT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Decatur, in the county of'Macon and State, of llllnois, have invented. a new and useful elbows 8 are united by means of short pipes Combustion Device, of which the following is a specification.

The device tormlng the subject matter of this application is adapted to be employed for converting a liquid fuel into gas. De-

vices of the type above mentioned have hitherto proved unsuccessful in some cases by reason of the fact that the generator is lo cated close to the flame and generally above the flame. Further, portions of the piping have been disposed too close to the flame. As a consequence ofboth of the foregoing considerations, the generator and the piping have been heated to too great an extent, thus causing the generator and the piping to become clogged with scale or carbon, backfiring being a not infrequent additional result. I

The present invention aims to provide a device of the type above indicated in which the undesirable consequences hereinbe'fore referred to may be obviating by disposing the piping and the deflectors, together with the burner tubes, properly with respect to the generators.

l/Vith the above and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanyingdrawing: Figure 1 shows the invention in top plan, parts being broken away Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1

In the accompanying drawings, the numeral 1 indicates a fuel supply pipe carrying casings 2 provided with valves 3. lhe

casings 2 are connected by means of short horizontal pipes 4 with the adjacent ends of generator casings 5 preferably united integrally asshown at 6. Into the other ends of the generator casings 5 are inserted the horizontal arms 7 of elbows 8, the. arms 7 of the elbows 8 constituting abutments adapted to receive screens 9 located within Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed Maren 29. .915., Serial No. 17,952.

the generator casings 5, Disposed the generatorcasin'gs5 and coacting with NT FICE;

the screens 9ar'e wicks 10 which may be made of asbestos. I

The depending vertical arms 11 of the sembled with the ends 22 of Ts 21, the opposite arms 23 of which are connected tosupports 2 1 united by means of elbows 25 with vertically disposed,,upstanding angle brackets 26 carrying at their ends deflectors 27 The deflectors 27 are horizontally disposed and lie opposite to the generators 5. (The or rods, it being possible to use rods if departs 24 and 26 may be in the form of pipes sired, since gas does not traverse the parts 24: and 26, the same actingprimarily as supports for the deflectors 27. The deflectors 27 are concaved upon their under surfaces as shown at 28. With the necks 29 of the Ts 21 are assembled upright burner pipes 30,

to the upper ends of which are detachably secured burner caps 31 having combustion orifices or outlets 32 concentrically disposed with respect to the deflectors 27.

Attention is directed to the tact that the generators 5 lie to one side of the burner caps 31 and are not located directly in the flame produced at the combustion orifices 32.

Owing to the presence of the deflectors 27,

the generators 5 will be heated sufliciently to exercise their functions, without becoming overheated. It is to be observed that the pipes 17 andconnected parts lie well below the generators 5, the burner tubes 30 and the Te 21 lying well to one side of the generators 5. As a consequence ofthe foregoing, the conducting pipes will not be overheated unduly.

lhe parts 12, 16, 17, 18, 20 and 21 define a conduit extended downwardly from one end of the generating casing 5 to a point below the generating casing, the conduit thence being extended laterally away from the generator and finally being extended forwardly into approximate parallelism with the generator and below the generator,the conduit thus formed being provided with an upstanding burner element represented by the parts 30 and 31.

one end of the generator, the conduit being. extended downwardly below the generator,

laterally away from the generator and below the generator, and forwardly below the generator in approximate parallelism to the generator, the conduitterminating in an up- I standing burner outlet; a deflector located above the outlet and disposed opposite to the generator; and a bracket independent of the generator and carried by the forwardly extended portion of the conduit, the deflector being mounted directly on the bracket.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my oWn, I have hereto afiixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

WILLIAM S. BARNETT. Witnesses: 1 p k CLEMENT CQWALTERs, J ACOB H. LATHAM.

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' l 1 Washington, D. G. 

